AFRI 1620: Black New Orleans (Archival) Research Seminar
Autumn 2015 Presentations of Research
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1. Carlos Sirah is a performer and playwright. His work encounters exile, rupture, displacement in relation to institutions, local and general. His theater pieces include: Planets Measured by Parallax, Notes on a Second Saeta, and The Red Book Sessions. His research for Black NOLA is A Study for (an) "Untitled Play Concerning Revolution in the United States of America through the Lens of the Denizens of Faubourg Tremé, New Orleans, Orleans Parish."
2. Ari Snider is a sophomore concentrating in History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. His research project, “Liberté, Égalité, Poèsie,” examines responses to the Civil War by free Black poets of New Orleans.
3. Gwendolene Mugodi (Class of 2018) is currently undeclared but will likely pursue a double concentration in Development Studies and an Independent Concentation in Storytelling. Her presentation is “Without Writing and So Without History.”
4. Thoralf Island is a first-year student. As yet undeclared, he plans to concentrate in Africana Studies. His research project is “Free People of Color, Castas, and Paths to Freedom during Spanish Rule of New Orleans, 1769-1803.”
5. Tim Ittner is a sophomore from Jefferson City, Missouri, concentrating in Africana Studies and Urban Studies. His research project, “Race, Place, and the City: the Geography of Black New Orleans,” explores the development of the urban landscape in New Orleans, and considers the space of African American neighborhoods within the city and the place-making processes that foster a sense of community.
7. Jamie Sarfeh is a senior Africana Studies concentrator, graduating in December 2015. Her research is project for Black NOLA is “‘Making Market’: Representations of Black Place-Making and Entrepreneurship in the 19th Century French Market of New Orleans.”
8. Warren Harding is a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Africana Studies, where he researches Afro-Caribbean migrant cultural production, at the intersection of literary and social movements. His presentation, “What Does New Orleans R&B Have to Do With It?: Diaspora, Migration, and Jamaican Sound,” examines the influence of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues on the development of Jamaican sound following World War II, and situates New Orleans R&B as a critical interlocutor in a transnational understanding of Jamaican music culture production.